Background*

Mrs. Gwendolyn S. King serves as the President of Podium Prose in Washington, D.C., a speaker's bureau and speechwriting service founded in 2000. Mrs. King served as the Senior Vice President of Corporate and Public Affairs at PECO Energy Company (formerly, Philadelphia Electric Company) from October 1992 to February 1998. Previously, Mrs. King served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for President Ronald Reagan. She was employed ... at Erie Family Life Insurance Co. She has been an Independent Director at Lockheed Martin Corporation since March 1995. She has been a Director of Monsanto Company since February 2001. She serves as a Director of Countrywide Financial Corporation, Pharmacia Corporation and the National Association of Corporate Directors and a Member of the George Washington University Council on American Politics. She served as a Director of Marsh & Mclennan Companies Inc. from 1998 to May 20, 2011. She served as a Director of Martin Marietta from 1992 to 1995. From August 1989 to September 1992, she served as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from August 1989 to September 1992. She served as Founding Partner of The Directors' Council, a corporate board search firm from October 2003 to May 2005. In 2001, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Mrs. King has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of New Haven and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Board Members Memberships*

Director, Chairman of Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Committee, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and Member of People & Compensation Committee

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